Yair Lapid is now Israel’s prime minister, a position he will hold as interim leader until Israelis head back to the ballot boxes on November 1 for the fifth time in three and a half years. After multiple delays, Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) voted to dissolve itself on June 30 in a 92–0 vote, as the
Continue Reading »Monday, 29 August 2022 | As a revived nuclear deal with Iran appears imminent, Israel’s leaders are continuing their campaign against what they refer to as a “bad deal,” as Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz just returned from a trip to the US and Israel’s intelligence chief is set to visit Washington next week. Prime
Continue Reading »Friday, 29 July 2022 | It is “highly unlikely” that the 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran will be revived in the near-term, Axios reported on Wednesday. According to the report, White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk blamed the stalemated talks on the Iranian camp, and suggested Tehran wanted the United States “to add
Continue Reading »Monday, 25 July 2022 | Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned yesterday that Russia’s attempts to halt the local Jewish Agency’s operations would be “a serious event” that “will affect relations” between the two nations. A district court in Moscow will consider the Russian Justice Ministry’s request to shut down the Jewish Agency in Russia,
Continue Reading »Monday, 18 July 2022 | Iran has become a nuclear threshold state with the ability to produce an atomic weapon if and when it chooses to do so, a senior adviser to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. “In a few days, we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we
Continue Reading »Monday, 11 July 2022 | As more headlines are made about Iran’s nuclear program—including the latest revelation that Tehran is producing advanced nuclear fuel in an underground facility—Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reiterated that his country is keeping its options open in how to confront the threat. The implication is that the military option remains
Continue Reading »Monday, 4 July 2022 | Israel is said to be bracing for a wave of potential terror attacks during US President Joe Biden’s visit in the Jewish state next week. Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtaion on Sunday held a high level briefing in preparation for the visit. Sources in the force said the police was
Continue Reading »The Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred to a soundtrack of international condemnation. Yet Israel did not join the chorus of outrage. Instead, Jerusalem avoided taking sides, toeing a diplomatic tightrope between the two warring nations. The impartiality didn’t come easily. Every now and then, a slip of the tongue from a minister or high-ranking official
Continue Reading »Security threats are a certainty in Israel. Every area of society is impacted by the ongoing existence of very real enemies—both inside and outside the nation’s borders—who make no secret of their intention to use whatever means necessary to de-Judaize the Jewish state and rid the neighborhood of Jews. Some say this has, by necessity,
Continue Reading »On an otherwise run-of-the-mill late winter afternoon in March, a terrorist went on a stabbing spree in the desert city of Beersheva. When Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an’s bloody work was finally halted by an armed bus driver’s bullet, he left a grisly trail of four Israelis dead and two wounded, making it Israel’s deadliest terror
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